Whiteley Reception

 Friday 13th June Thank you for your contributions towards porridge making ingredients.  The children enjoyed making and eating their porridge. This week we have continued our work on 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'.   The children received a letter from Baby Bear asking them for help as he is bored with eating the same tasting porridge every day. The children have decided to add a variety of fruit to the porridge and have been busy taste testing and chopping and slicing the fruit ready to add to the porridge and eat...yum! Phonics This week in phonics we have revised the digraphs ur, ow and oi.   We have practised reading and spelling words with these sounds in.  Maths This week in maths we have revisited comparison using different resources e.g. rekenreks. We have found amounts that are fewer, equal to or more than other amounts. Minibeast concert Just to let you know that on Wednesday 9th July we will be having a minibeast concert at 2:30pm. You ar...

  Friday 6th June  This week at school we have been learning about fairytales.  We have been reading "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". We have been practising retelling the story in groups and role playing the characters.  We worked on using different kinds of expression in our voices to show the different characters.  You might like to practise this skill at home when your child is reading to you. Phonics This week in phonics we have revised the digraphs long oo, short oo, ar and or. We have practised reading and spelling words with these sounds in.  Please check your child's reading log to check which book you need to read on Bug Club. Thankyou. Maths This week in maths we have revisited comparison using the rekenreks. Minibeast concert Just to let you know that on  Wednesday 9th July  we will be having a minibeast concert at  2.30pm . You are welcome to come and listen to the children sing their songs. We would love the children to come to...

  Friday 23rd May This week in Reception has been so exciting! All of our eggs hatched into ducklings. The children have loved observing them, holding them and helping to look after them. We have been developing our Understanding the World (Science) learning, making careful observations and using our words to describe and write about what we can see.  We hope that your child has enjoyed the experience and told you all about it! Phonics This week in phonics, we have been revising all the phase 2 and phase 3 sounds we have learnt so far. This week's sounds are ai, ee, igh and oa. We have also been revising all of the phase 2 and phase 3 tricky words. Click here to listen to the Phase 2 tricky word song Click here to listen to the Phase 3 tricky word song Maths This week, we have revisited the concept of 'comparison'.  The children have thought carefully about where numbers to 10 are in relation to each other thinking carefully about which is more or less. We have used the l...

Friday 16th May   This week at school, we have had a very exciting time!  We received an incubator full of eggs for us to hatch! We found out about animals that hatch from eggs and made predictions about what we thought our eggs might contain. Phonics This week in phonics, we have ben revising all the phase 2 and phase 3 sounds we have learnt so far. This week's sounds are ch, sh, th and ng. We have also been revising all of the phase 2 and phase 3 tricky words. Click here to listen to the Phase 2 tricky word song Click here to listen to the Phase 3 tricky word song Maths This week, we have been revising our knowledge of composition.  We have looked at numbers 6-9 using the '5 and a bit' structure and then we have begun to explore how 10 is composed e.g. 10 can be composed of 2 parts. Here are some examples... 10 is made of 2 and 8, 8 and 2 make 10 10 is made of 9 and 1, 9 and 1 make 10 Reading challenge Well done to those children who have completed the first part of the...

    Friday 9th May It has been lovely to congratulate children on completing their first 10 reads for our home reading challenge.  Please continue to hand these in and we will give out the stickers for completing the first part. This week week we have been thinking about celebrations and why they are special. We have then learnt about the Jewish celebration of 'Shabbat' and have thought about the similarities and differences with other celebrations.  You might like to talk to your child about celebrations you take part in with your family.  Maybe look back at some photos. Do all people share those celebrations? Do all children celebrate in the same way? How do different children celebrate their birthdays?  Phonics This week in phonics we have revisited the phase 3 sounds  y, z, zz, qu We have practised writing words and sentences using these sounds. This week's book to read on  Bug Club  to practise these phonemes is ' Chick gets lost'. Pleas...

 Friday 2nd May   This week, we have continued to read stories written by the author Catherine Rayner. We have thought about how the different animals move (penguins, lions, giraffes, crocodiles, tigers and bears).  We thought about words that would be good for describing how the animals move and how they look.  We used these words to write sentences to describe the animals e.g. The penguin waddles and has soft feathers. Phonics This week in phonics we have begun to revisit the phase 3 sounds with a greater emphasis on writing words containing these sounds.  This week we have revisited j, v, w, and x.    We have practised all of the phase 3 tricky words so that we can work towards quicker sight recognition. Click here to listen to the phase 3 tricky word song. Maths This week, we have revisited the concept of subitising - instantly seeing how many objects are in a group without having to count them. We have used our subitising skills alongside a tens ...

Friday 25th April Phonics This week in phonics we have learnt the sounds ear, air, ure and er with greater emphasis on writing words and sentences containing these sounds. We have practised reading all of the Phase 3 tricky words so that we can work towards quicker sight recognition. Click here to join in with a tricky word song. Maths This week, the children have continued to engage with activities that draw attention to the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are. The children have also revisited the concept of cardinality – the idea that the last number in the count tells us how many things there are altogether. Whiteley Reading Challenge This week we have sent home a reading challenge card in your child's  book bag.  The aim of this challenge is to encourage regular daily reading to improve your child's confidence and fluency.  At the end of each stage we have little rewards to give out - special stickers, bookmarks and certificates and we celeb...

Friday 4th April  Welcome to our last blog before the Easter holidays. This week we have been busy doing doing lots of Easter activities in school..  There is no set homework over the next 2 week break but we hope that the children will continue to read regularly with you at home.  We wish you all a lovely break with your families. RE We have been learning about Easter through the concept of 'new life'.  First, we discussed when / where we have seen signs of new life e.g. new buds on trees, spring flowers.  We talked about the signs of spring - lambs being born and chicks hatching.  Then we learnt what Christians believe about new life and Jesus at Easter. We enjoyed making our Easter cards. Phonics This week in phonics, we have learnt the phonemes 'or' and 'ur' 'ow' and 'oi'. We also learnt the tricky words 'you' as well as recapping all previously learnt tricky words. Maths In Maths this week, we have been learning the names and propert...

Friday 28th March  This week we have continued to learn about 'People who help us'.  We have continued learning about the features of non-fiction books such as the contents page, headings, labels, bold print and glossary. We also thought about how the police help us, when our favourite swing went missing from our outdoor classroom! We created posters to help find our missing swing and pinned them around the school. Phonics In phonics this week, we have learnt to re ad and write words with the long 'oo' sound (as in spoon), the short 'oo' sound (as in book) and the digraph 'ar'. We have been introduced to the  "tricky" words " we " and " are " - these are words we learn to recognise by sight.  It would really support your child to remember all the new digraphs that we are learning if you could play some of the games related to these sounds on your child's Bug Club account. Thank you! Maths This week, the children used pra...